Who created "Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]"?

Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso] was created by Antoine Watteau in c. 1715/1716.

What medium is "Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]"?

Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso] is red chalk on brown laid paper, the sculpted head likely not by Watteau.

Is "Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]" in the public domain?

Yes, Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso] is in the public domain and available for free download under CC0 license.

Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]

Q: When was "Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]" created?

This artwork was created c. 1715/1716.

Antoine Watteau

c. 1715/1716

Medium

red chalk on brown laid paper, the sculpted head likely not by Watteau

Dimensions

overall: 15.6 x 21.1 cm (6 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Shepard Morgan to honor Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Curator of Old Master Drawings, and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.22.1.b

About the Artist

Antoine Watteau · 1684–1721

Jean-Antoine Watteau, born in 1684 in Valenciennes to a modest family—his father a roofer named Jean-Philippe Watteau—was the second of four sons who displayed an early passion for art. After initial apprenticeship under local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin, he moved to Paris around 1702, working in workshops copying Flemish and Dutch genre scenes. By 1705, he entered the studio of Claude Gillot, ab...

Figure Sketches and a Copy After a Sculpted Head [verso]

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